Job 3:23
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hidden, and around whom God hath placed a fence?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
In Context
22Who would rejoice even to exulting, who would be glad could they but find a grave?
24For before my food cometh my groaning, and like the water are poured forth my loud complaints.
Cross References
Job 13:27And [that] thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest narrowly all my paths; [and] settest for thyself a mark upon the soles of my feet?
Job 19:8My road hath he fenced up, so that I cannot pass out; and on my paths he placeth darkness.
Psalms 31:8(31:9) And thou hast not surrendered me into the hand of the enemy: thou hast caused my feet to stand on an ample space.
Psalms 88:9(88:10) My eye languisheth by reason of affliction: I call on thee, O Lord, every day, I stretch out unto thee my hands.
Lamentations 3:7He hath placed a fence round about me, that I cannot get out; he hath made heavy my chain.
Hosea 2:6(2:8) Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will close it up with a fence, that she shall not find her paths.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:21-26
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. 25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.… Read the whole commentary →